Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks agoI did the same thing with PlayStation games in CD players. And my PC. Sometimes, the cutscenes were just AVI files you could watch without even playing the game!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It was rather common for PC games to include regular everyday “red book” audio for background music; I seem to remember back in the day you’d actually have to hook the optical drive to the sound card with a cable so it could pass through audio.
The Secret of Monkey Island did this for its CD releases; the audio options for that game ranged from PC speaker to Ad-Lib chip tunes to Roland MT-32 support and eventually CD Audio. The game shipped on a few diskettes, a few megabytes tops, so the whole game is tiny on a single 750MB CD, plenty of room for extremely high quality game audio.